Earth Day events take place in community

OLIVIA HINER co-editor-in-chief

All across the globe, there are countless organizations working to bring awareness to Earth Day. Inside the Wooster community, there are also events going on to celebrate the day.

At WHS, the Green Club encouraged students to participate in a spirit week. Around spirit week, Lucia Perfetti, (12), president of the club, said “I feel like a lot of the messaging surrounding the environment is very negative… a spirit week is a fun way to celebrate Earth Day because, although we absolutely don’t want anyone to sleep on the dangers of global warming we do want to instill a little bit of spirit and motivation back into the idea of the environment, and environmental advocacy.”

Along with a spirit week, the Green Club, in partnership with Scott Miller, Social Studies Dept. member, will be planting flowers in the courtyard across the hall from the office. The club’s goal with this is activity is to promote peace between humans and the environment.

As far as businesses go, Local Roots hosted their annual Drive Electric Earth Day on April 22. Ryan Leeper, the event organizer, said the event is important to the community as, “electric vehicles are still fairly unknown powertrains to the average person.” Leeper reminds people that the purpose